The governor is commander-in-chief the National Guard in its capacity as organized militia. The US Constitution gives Congress the authority to "organize, arm, and discipline" the militia, and they have done so through a variety of acts. Every member of the National Guard is simultaneously a member of the (Army or Air) National Guard of the United States, a federal reserve force. When a Guardsman is acting as a reserve of the federal forces, his commander-in-chief is the President.

Both the governor and the President can put the National Guard on active duty. The Governor puts the (Your State's Name Here) National Guard on state active duty under state law. The President puts the Army (or Air) National Guard of the United States on active duty in the US Army (or Air Force) under Title 10.

Under Title 32 USC the Governors of the states control their Guard while under Title 32 (part time or state active duty like for floods or hurricanes). Under Title 10 USC the President of the United States can federalize Guard units with or without the consent of the Governor for overseas missions or national emergencies,

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It depends, its divided into state regiments, so that the government has control over all the guards in his state and can call them up for what he wants since he is the state executive But during times of national emergency, like the california wildfire or Hurricane KAtrina, the president has control over every single guardsmen in the United States. So the majority of the time, The states have control over their part of the national guard

The National Guard is just a division of the Army, just like the Reserves.
There's really no "active duty." They're just employed when the governor or the president send them somewhere (like the May 4, 1970 protest at Kent State or Hurricane Katrina's aftermath in New Orleans). They're basically the Army Reserve, but they just stay on American soil (including foreign embassies).

There's also an Air National Guard (part of the USAF) and the Coast Guard is kind of like a Naval National Guard.